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  • People's Choice Awards nominees announced

    People's Choice Awards nominees announced (TV.com Feature:)

    House, Grey's Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Heroes, Supernatural up for democratic trophies.
    by Tim Surette - 11/10/2008 4:51pm
  • Children in Need: 2008 highlights

    Children in Need: 2008 highlights (TV.com Feature:)

    British TV charity extravaganza Children in Need is back. Scores of celebrities are lining up to join presenters Terry Wogan and Tess Daly as they raise money for disadvantaged children across the UK. The seven-hour show features a variety of entertainment treats, and we've rounded up the best bits for you.
    11/10/2008 7:52am
  • Children in Need: 2008 highlights

    Children in Need: 2008 highlights (TV.com Feature:)

    British TV charity extravaganza Children in Need is back. Scores of celebrities are lining up to join presenters Terry Wogan and Tess Daly as they raise money for disadvantaged children across the UK. The seven-hour show features a variety of entertainment treats, and we've rounded up the best bits for you.
    11/10/2008 7:52am

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    fireexit112
    member since: 07/26/06

    The Bottom Line: "Good"

    First off, I would like to say I enjoyed this episode very much. Going by previous episodes penned by RTD (no disrespect to him or anything - I thank him greatly for bringing this show back, and he has written a couple of excellent episodes) I was not expecting anything very special. Midnight is a filler episode, but that does not detract from what it does as a story, and that is placing the Doctor effectively into a situation which eventually renders him powerless. The acting is superb throughout, and the first part of the episode is very funny. And then the knocking begins, which is actually quite creepy. From here it goes a bit downhill, mainly because the repeating goes on too long and the episode consists of going backwards and forwards between characters as they argue about chucking people out. Nevertheless, the creature is very intriguing, and the idea is fairly original if nothing else. The ending feels rather abrupt however, and when it finishes you suddenly realise that actually not a whole lot happened. In my opinion, if the story had been restructured, and perhaps more things other than repeating that the creature was doing, this would have made a decent, if slow-moving, two parter. So not a bad entry to the series, but it carries a distinct feeling of not being as good as it could have been.

    06/15/2008 2:45pm | report abuse
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    member since: 07/26/06

    The Bottom Line: "Perfect"

    One of my favourite episodes ever, I have no faults with this at all. The casting is superb, there are laugh out loud jokes (Steven Moffat's talent for writing brilliant comedy shining through), the plotting is tight, and everything makes sense. The gas mask people are creepy, Jack's ship looks really cool... I could go on. While many two parters drag in places, or feel stretched, this doesn't at all, and the conclusion is logical and overwhelmingly upbeat with infectious joy. Even the trailer for Boom Town at the end's good... which is more than can be said for the episode itself. Perfect episode.

    06/10/2008 2:26am | report abuse
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    The Bottom Line: "Superb"

    Yes, it's a little predictable. Yes, the 'Everybody lives' bit is just like the end of The Doctor Dances. And no, we don't find out who River Song really is. But does this detract from how good this episode is? No, it doesn't. For the fourth series in a row, Steven Moffat has proved that he can write fantastic Doctor Who episodes, and I cannot wait until he takes over from Russel T Davies. The cast are great, the CGI superb, and the storytelling does everything it can to be unique and varied. This is exactly why I watch this show, and in a disappointingly average series so far, Silence in the Library and Forest of the Dead have killed the negative feelings about Doctor Who I was beginning to build up. These two episodes are head and shoulders above everything else so far, and hopefully Mr Moffat will continue to deliver. He has, after all, written the best episodes of every series so far.

    06/10/2008 2:20am | report abuse

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  • TheOldBill
    member since: 08/27/05

    sguB weN, serutaeF weN

    It seems a long time ago now. Anyone remember the "we've been listening" propaganda in August and September? That presaged the big redesign that introduced an unpopular new look for the site, in which some features were removed, others were hidden behind tabs and sub-menus, and those features that had been working were broken?

    Eleven weeks on, most broken functions and features are still broken. It seems that the current development team may have got bored with their thankless task, because they are once again adding new features and breaking things as they go!

    Every page of every guide now has seven new video tabs. If you are interested in shows that are more than five minutes old, or from outside the U.S., that means seven new tabs each carrying the message "There are currently no videos." Thanks for sharing. Most of the guides I edit are so far off the corporate radar that the "There are currently no stories.", "There are currently no photos." and "There are currently no dvd for [show name]" already provide enough excitement.

    This being TV.com, every new feature means more missing and broken links and loss of features, and the price to pay for the video tabs is a loss of the season dropdown list. If you want to access an episode, you have to access a list of every episode. That can be a pain if you happen to be visiting or editing a guide for a show with hundreds or thousands of episodes.

    I read that someone is looking at the new problem. This being TV.com, no developer can or will simply reinstate a removed function, but we are liable to get a new way of accessing episodes or seasons in due course. Or maybe not.

    As I recall, TV.com developers fixed most of the problems with v2.5 within three months or so. Other outstanding issues were left unfixed, and are now abandoned. Progress this time has been much much slower. I worry, therefore, that the other remaining issues from v3.0 are likely to remain unfixed when v4.0 is rolled out in summer or fall 2009. This all got me thinking. If the Technical Support forum is for things that were broken before mid-September, and the Redesign Feedback forum is for things that were broken eleven weeks ago, do we need a third forum for things that will be broken post-redesign?

    Posted 12/03/2008 6:37am | views: 16,083
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  • Jami393
    member since: 08/27/05

    I'm Back

    Right I'm coming back online a lot more, but you have to give me time to get to yor messages. Because I arn't on the Internet anymore.

    But I'll be coming on every day, appart from Sunday.

    Posted 09/02/2008 7:18am | views: 16,083
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  • fireexit112
    member since: 08/27/05

    Please Turn Left (and get on with it)

    Hello, hello. A shorter blog this time, just about Doctor Who. Only two more left, and they're looking rather good, with Russel T Davies playing 'how much can we shove into two episodes before they explode?!' But anyway, we've still got all that to come.

    Silence in the Library - superb casting, great CGI, a typically brilliant script from Moffat. What more could you ask for? Of course, it's not perfect. The Data Ghost scene goes on a bit (although it is necessary for setting up the later scares) and the cliffhanger is just a lot of shouting (with an obvious resolution) but you can't have everything. Vashta Nerada must be the best name for anything ever... 9/10

    Forest of the Dead - Faster paced than the first part and generally a much more exciting episode. Donna's virtual life provides a nice secondary plot (watch Doctor Moon's funny facial expressions! he's hilarious!) and the cast continue to impress. Tennant and Alex Kingston are amazing in their scenes together - provided with great dialogue (and imagery) - 'you watch us run', the Doctor opening the TARDIS by snapping his fingers, etc. River's 'death' scene is the best bit, almost topped by the Doctor's final run to save her. Just brilliant. 10/10

    Midnight - a pleasingly decent script from Russel T Davies, who is not among my favourite writers for this series. There's no escaping the fact that this is filler, but if you accept that, it's very enjoyable. The cast are all good, but it is Tennant who holds this together in the weaker moments - such as the repeating stuff going on too long. Some people are gonna find this tedious, as it's basically some people in a box shouting at each other, but I didn't, really. Better than I expected, 7/10

    Turn Left - Rose is back, hooray! Thank god, cos without Billie Piper this episode would have fizzled out completey. Catherine Tate isn't bad as an actress, and she just about carries it off, but the story's not exactly interesting...more like a clipshow of series 3 and 4, or a 'best of RTD' episode, with a bit of ATMOS thrown in for good measure. The pre-titles scenes are great, and the last five minutes are amazing, it's just a bit stodgy and uninteresting in between. I just felt the whole thing was fairly pointless, especially as everything looks so good next week. Ah well. The trailer...wow. Should be good. 6/10

    Please post comments! We can argue about which ones are good and which ones aren't

    Fireexit

    Posted 06/22/2008 2:40am | views: 16,083
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